Though stained glass was being made for church windows in Europe during the 12th century, it was not until the rise of Venetian glass makers in the 13th century that other items, such as vases and ...

Beautiful goblets like the ones Toni Bommarito of Clinton Township brought in to Trash or Treasure recently once graced elegant dining tables throughout the world. Toni's granddaughter Nina Eltringham ...

A beautiful light fixture acts as jewelry for the home; the gleam and shimmer of chandeliers is not dissimilar to that of a pair of dangling diamond earrings, and crystal pendants are often ...

There are numerous ways to decorate glassware, and 19th-century Bohemian glass artists excelled in all of them. They often used multiple types of decoration on the same piece. For example, a small ...

A Bohemian rhapsody in the Czech Republic is often played out in the sonatas of crystal, hitting crescendos with every exquisite piece, whether a waterfall of crystal drops, a crown, or a wild plant ...

A 1930s Bavarian lamp, left, and late 1940s apothecary jars, right, catch the light as Bohemian glass and other art, from the late collector Gertrude Wabnig, lies ready for an estate sale conducted by ...

In a cluttered, concrete-floor workshop nearly as hot as a sauna, a half-dozen men in T-shirts and shorts glide around a glowing furnace, pulling out long, hollow wands tipped with molten glass. One ...

My parents purchased these hurricane lamps possibly around 1950. In a note they said they had been made in occupied Germany. Might they have any value in today’s marketplace? We have several problems ...